KU-PA₃-RI-JA

Kubariya, a town of Ugarit, (wool) of Kubariya: a section heading; rival Gubliya 'the Byblian'

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Reading
Kubariya
Confidence
Speculative
Root
Kubariya (Pre-Greek)
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritickbry, a town of Ugarit, syllabic URU ku-ba-ri-ia-a, RS 25.455 A+B I 4 (DULAT 424)
  • AkkadianKubariyā (RGTC 12/2, 165)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 24aKU-PA₃-RI-JA KI-MA+RU-[section heading—(wool) of Kubariya, a town of Ugarit; rival Gubliya 'the Byblian'

Commentary

HT 24a .1 KU-PA₃-RI-JA · KI-MA+RU[, the heading of a wool inventory; PA-SA-RI-JA heads the second section at .4. Kubariya, a town of the kingdom of Ugarit: alphabetic kbry (KTU 4.800 II 18), syllabic URU ku-ba-ri-ia-a in the town list RS 25.455A+ I 4, as van Soldt reads it, where Arnaud read URU šu-ma-ri-a (DULAT 424; RGTC 12/2, 165). KU-PA₃-RI-JA writes ku-ba-ri-ia sign for sign, PA₃ for b. The same list names Baṣīru at I 10 (RGTC 12/2, 53). Rival: Gubliya ‘the Byblian’, Gubla with the gentilic -iya: Amorite GUBL-AJ-I and GUBL-AJIT-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 1793–1795); Akkadian Gublaya ‘Byblian’ at Ugarit (ORACC P503838); Hebrew gibli ‘Gebalite’; Ugaritic gbl ‘Byblos’ (DULAT 290), with RI for l. One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon